If you open a link to a YouTube video or channel on a fresh browser you'll get this pop up:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/tU8lT.png

Is there something you can add to the end (or middle!) of that URL that will automatically skip that page?

Use case: I'm automatically displaying a user supplied YouTube like in the built in Unreal 4 web browser and it breaks because this screen now comes up.

CodePudding user response：

Either when selecting REJECT ALL or ACCEPT ALL YouTube sets a cookie called SOCS to the value CAESEwgDEgk0ODE3Nzk3MjQaAmVuIAEaBgiA_LyaBg that is encoded in base64. As far as I know the only way to get rid of the consent screen is to pass this cookie when requesting the webpage.

You can verify my answer by running:

curl 'https://www.youtube.com' -H 'Accept-Language: en' | grep 'We use' | wc -l

Note that We use is the start of We use cookies and data to of the consent screen.

You'll get 1 which means that the consent screen is present with such a simple request.

While with:

curl 'https://www.youtube.com' -H 'Accept-Language: en' -H 'Cookie: SOCS=CAESEwgDEgk0ODE3Nzk3MjQaAmVuIAEaBgiA_LyaBg' | grep 'We use' | wc -l

You'll get 0 which means that the consent screen is absent.

CodePudding user response：

If you don't need the surrounding YouTube interface, and just want to show the video, you can display the "embedded" version. Replace the watch?v= in the URL with embed/.

Here's some javascript, as a bookmarklet:

javascript:(function(){window.location = window.location.toString().replace('watch?v=', 'embed/').replace(/&[\s\S]*/, '');})()